I'm running Debian Woody and procmail 3.152-2 (the version available in
debian testing) My mail retrieval string is:
fetchmail --> procmail --> mbox --> kmail
However, something breaks between procmail and kmail. If kmail is not open,
procmail delivers to /var/mail/kurtl just fine, as I can see by "cat
/var/mail/kurtl". However, when I launch kmail to retreive messages, the
messages disappear into the ether. I know they leave my mbox since "cat
/var/mail/kurtl" shows that the file is now blank, but they never make it to
kmail's ~/Mail/inbox, either.
If I remove procmail from the mail retrieval string so it becomes:
fetchmail --> mbox --> kmail
Everything works just great and kmail happily retrieves the mail that
fetchmail delivers. If I add procmail back in, all mail disappears.
I've ensured that kmail is configured to use mutt-privileged dotlocking, so
the files should be getting locked correctly.
Any ideas are appreciated. I've included my simple .procmailrc file as well
as a snippet from procmail's verbose logging below, in case they're helpful.
--kurt
Here's a sample snippet from /var/log/procmail:
-----------------------------------------
procmail: Assigning "SPAMFILE=/home/kurtl/Mail/spam"
procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*spamtrash"
procmail: Locking "/var/mail/kurtl.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/kurtl"
procmail: Opening "/var/mail/kurtl"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "/var/mail/kurtl.lock"
procmail: Notified comsat: "kurtl(_at_)0:/var/mail/kurtl"
Subject: test pair.com 11:33
Folder: /var/mail/kurtl 1289
----------------------------------------
and, here's my very simple .procmailrc file. (just trying to get it working
before I get fancy):
VERBOSE=on
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=/var/mail
DEFAULT=/var/mail/kurtl
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
SPAMFILE=/home/kurtl/Mail/spam
:0
* ^Subject:.*spamtrash
$SPAMFILE
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